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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in distance learning technology are empowering people in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive open online courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many topics that elearning technology organizations have to consider now that online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we make sure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Somaliland to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these new open education endeavours. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also examines the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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